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Yes, I was a "Shacker."  One of the last in Southern California, I think,
who knew anything about what I was selling.  I have to take issue . . .

In article <75...@hubcap.clemson.edu> gri...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy) writes:

>                                          . . .  The worst I have seen
>personally is when a salesmaker (whom I didn't like in the first place,
>since I knew he was stupid) told a potential customer that the
>Tandy 1000 TL/2 (80286 based 640K DOS machine) ran _MacIntosh_
>software!!!!

Careful, Mike.  There was a third-party Macintosh emulator board (Sorry,
can't remember what it was called) which Tandy endorsed.  I don't know
if/how well it worked, but we sold many 1000s with the phrase "And it CAN
BE Macintosh-compatible!"

>. . . Day one, she comes in and does an inventory, $6000 of stuff is
>missing, and its her fault??

That inventory loss SHOULD have come out of the previous manager's P/L.
Looks like your District Manager messed up.

>   A company which deals in computers didn't have computerized inventory
>control or point-of-sale terminals until THIS FALL.  Corporate liked
>pencil and paper wasting time, I guess.  Then the FINALLY figured out
>that it cost $$$$$$ to waste that time!

We were always a little proud that we could WRITE up more sales in a given
period of time than any of these stores with the mega-computerized cash
register gizmos.  More personal, too; we actually had to TALK to the
customers.  Only trouble was, it took someone with a little more
intellegence than a turnip to compute sale tax with a (gasp!) calculator
and MAKE CHANGE (Gosh, what's that?)!

>So next time you have to buy something from RS, and are amazed at the
>stupidity of the salesperson, you'll know that all the good ones quit
>out of frustration.

Hear, hear.  I quit out of frustration.

Ah . . . the good old days . . . to be a "Shacker" again . . .
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